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SUMMARY:Entering Bohm's Holoflux
DESCRIPTION:Entering Bohm’s Holoflux \n\n\n\nFour Sundays in October  – 4\, 11\, 18\, 25  – 202010:00 am PST\, 7:00 pm CEST \n\n\n\nEach Sunday session will be followed by a one-hour Wednesday discussion group11:00 am PST\, 8:00 pm CEST. \n\n\n\nAn experiential\, experimental approach to David Bohm’s holoflux: the flowing movement of all that is\, the ground of our being\, the mysterious domain in which mind\, matter\, and meaning are an organic whole. \n\n\n\nBohm proposed that human beings hold the potential to manifest the holoflux as living reality. What access points might we already have to this potential? What aspects of our personal and cultural lives thwart this access? Through presentation and extensive participant interaction\, these questions will guide our inquiry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSunday October 4:  The Enfolding/Unfolding HumanOur contemporary identity—the self-image—follows a pattern of ‘enfolding’ and ‘unfolding’ that we find articulated throughout Bohm’s cosmos. But this self-image filters out the deep\, living currents of the holoflux\, in favour of enfolding recycled thought patterns\, values\, and images. Bohm often referred to the bright lights of Las Vegas\, which blot out the light of the stars: ‘When you turn off the electric lights\, then the universe comes through.’ Can we move through this analogy\, and into the living cosmos it points to? This holds the key to what Bohm referred to as true individuality—the undivided human. \n\n\n\nSunday October 11: Thought as a System & the Pain BodyWe will examine the manner in which awareness\, thinking\, and feeling deteriorate into ‘thoughting’ and ‘felting.’ This process permeates our individual lives\, as well as collective global culture\, and is at the root of reflexive defensiveness and isolation. The result is what has been called the ‘pain body\,’ a uniquely apt term for our modern condition. We will inquire into the various manifestations of the pain body\, and how this blockage to the deep currents of the holoflux might be undone. We will explore how interoception—our interpretation of the sensations within our bodies—can help us understand the grip and extent of the thoughting/felting vortex. \n\n\n\nSunday October 18: Liberating the Explicate Order & and the Prospect of DialogueIf we can release somewhat the impulses of thoughting\, felting\, and the pain body\, we can begin to sense untapped aspects of consciousness that are innately in motion\, rather than fixed and rigid. As inner rigidities dissolve\, this is reflected in the ‘outer’ world. It is this affinity for movement that allows us to sense and engage in a new way with the explicate order—the world of cars\, rivers\, people\, stars. Such ‘liberating’ of the explicate order is central to deep engagement in dialogue—when multiple participants allow the flux and flow of assumptions and presuppositions\, we find the seeds of a new level of participatory consciousness. \n\n\n\nSunday October 25: Flux & TransformationFor 40\,000 years or more\, indigenous people have been attuned to what David Bohm referred to as the holoflux\, and its attendant implicate orders. Our guest Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot) will discuss how these perceptions relate to the fixities and rigidities of the modern world. Can our categories of ‘reality’ become fluid? More deeply\, can fluid\, evolving categories—our framings of reality—help us align with the movements of the holoflux? Is such activity itself the expression of the holoflux\, manifesting in human beings? Are we willing to entertain the prospect of perpetual transformations? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol\, Bohm collaborator\, editor\, educator \n\n\n\nLee Nichol is the editor of David Bohm’s On Dialogue; On Creativity; and The Essential David Bohm. From 1980-1992 he collaborated with Bohm on various aspects of dialogue\, consciousness\, and education. \n\n\n\nHe has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, NC; of the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, CA; of the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, CA; and of Denver University in Denver\, CO.
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SUMMARY:David Bohm Dialogue: Is There a Different Way to Talk Together
DESCRIPTION:David Bohm Dialogue: Is There a Different Way to Talk Together \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 31 – December 5\, 2020Six Saturday Sessions of 2 hours and 30 mins18:00 CEST  /  13:00 EST on October 31\,  thereafter 12:00 EST \n\n\n\nwith Sally Jeffery\, Manfred Kritzler\, Beth Macy\, Caroline Pawluk and David Schrum \n\n\n\nRegister early as this program has a limit of 16 participants. \n\n\n\n\nDialogue works at several levels. At the deepest level it is about the development and transformative power of the collective mind. At another it provides a ‘display’ of thought\, slowing down its movement and allowing its observation. It allows the expression of many alternative views on a particular topic\, some of which are presented in non-negotiable ways. Thanks to the group process these differences do not lead to confrontation but are held together in a creative tension. Rather than trying to resolve opposing positions through compromise\, it is possible to move to an ‘order between and beyond. \nDavid Bohm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dialogue Program\n\n\n\nThis dialogue program is an invitation both to those new to dialogue and those who have participated previously. It is a journey together\, without leaders or followers. Registrants and convenors enquire as co-participants\, as we explore the movement of conscious mind and touch into what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nEach week a presenter will offer a brief introduction to a dialogue theme. Group dialogues of about two hours will follow. All convenors will participate in each session. Through this series\, our weekly introductory focus will progress—beginning from (1) a general overview\, then moving to (2) self\, (3) the other\, (4) the group as a whole\, (5) silence and (6) the dialogic field. In practice\, however\, our intention is that every session may bring in all these aspects and that we explore without boundaries\, in freedom. \n\n\n\nTopics and presenters are listed below\, each followed by a quotation/quotations by David Bohm that touch on the week’s focus:  \n\n\n\nWeek 1 – Dialogue – A Journey Together – with David Schrum\n\n\n\nWhat is it to discover the roots of our common human consciousness? Through David Bohm’s approach to dialogue\, we will open an enquiry into this question as we begin our journey together. \n\n\n\n\nThe object of dialogue is not to analyze things\, or to win an argument\, or to exchange opinions. Rather\, it is to suspend your opinions and to look at the opinions—to listen to everyone’s opinions\, to suspend them\, and to see what all that means. \n\n\n\nI suggest that there is a potential for self-awareness of thought—that the concrete\, real process of the movement of thought could be self-aware\, without bringing in a “self” who is aware of it. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 2 – The Art of Listening – with David Schrum\n\n\n\nDeep listening is a transformative process for the listener. As we listen to both the voices of others and the voice within\, we enter into an exploration together. Through intimate listening consciousness flowers\, to reveal its inner structure. \n\n\n\n\nIf you see other people’s thought\, it becomes your own thought\, and you treat it as your own thought. And when an emotional charge comes up\, you share all the emotional charges\, too\, if they affect you; you hold them together with all the thoughts. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 3 – Suspension and Moving Together – with Manfred Kritzler\n\n\n\nThrough suspension of assessment and judgement\, whatever thoughts are arising in me have the same value as the thoughts of others.  This gives us the opportunity to move together beyond the limitation of thought. \n\n\n\n\nIf each of us in the room is suspending\, then we are all doing the same thing. We are looking at everything together. \n\n\n\nAccordingly\, a different kind of consciousness is possible among us\, a participatory consciousness….Everything can move between us. Each person is participating\, is partaking of the whole meaning of the group and also taking part in it. We can call that true dialogue. \n\n\n\nThe point of suspension is to help make proprioception possible\, to create a mirror so that you can see the results of your thought. You have it inside yourself because your body acts as a mirror and you can see tensions arising in the body. Also\, other people are a mirror\, the group is a mirror. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 4 – Facilitation – with Sally Jeffery\n\n\n\nThis process of dialogue\, as David Bohm proposes it\, is not easy. Perhaps there are ways to support its emergence. It begins with seeing the need for this kind of dialogue. \n\n\n\n\nOn the whole you could say that if you are defending your opinions\, you are not serious. Likewise\, if you are trying to avoid something unpleasant inside of yourself\, that is also not being serious. But in dialogue you have to be serious. It is not dialogue if you are not—not in the way I’m using the word. \n\n\n\n\nWeek 5 – Silence and Listening – with Caroline Pawluk\n\n\n\nThe beauty of silent listening is that we just watch and listen\, doing nothing about what we observe. \n\n\n\n\nBut in a participatory view\, the suggestion is that we have the unlimited as the ground of everything—that our true being is unlimited. \n\n\n\n\n\nSo we can see there is no “road” to truth. What we are trying to say is that in dialogue we share all the roads and we finally see that none of them matters. We see the meaning of all the roads\, and therefore we come to the “no road.” \n\n\n\n\nWeek 6 – Sensing the Field – with Beth Macy\n\n\n\nListening intently to the silence that is beyond our personal thought\, what seeks to emerge from that field of common consciousness?  What inklings of new meaning are arising? \n\n\n\n\nI am proposing\, however\, that the field of thought is limited. I am also suggesting that there is the “unlimited\,” which contains the limited. This “unlimited” is not just in the direction of going to greater and greater distances out to the end of the universe; but much more importantly\, it is also going into more and more subtlety. \n\n\n\n\nSALLY JEFFERY was introduced to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti while an undergraduate in Sociology. Through involvement with his school in England\, she met and was impressed by David Bohm (a founding trustee of the school) and became committed to his work with dialogue. Over more than three decades\, she has participated in dialogue in many settings including prisons and her local (Lancaster) dialogue group. \n\n\n\nMANFRED KRITZLER was born in Nürnberg\, Germany. He was a partner in a German tax consultant firm in Stuttgart and a member of an international group of chartered accountants. He specialized in international taxes and transferring firms to the next generation. Having left the partnership some years ago\, he is now a self-employed coach based mainly on David Bohm‘s holographic worldview. Manfred is presently in the process of creating a workshop with the title\, ‘Trust in the Unknown.’ \n\n\n\nBETH MACY has followed a career interwoven with a common thread—change. She has been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues: organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nCAROLINE PAWLUK has been involved in a local dialogue group in Sudbury\, Canada over the past twenty years and in various international forums in the United States and Europe during the past eight years. She is presently engaged with four online dialogue groups. \n\n\n\nDAVID SCHRUM has been involved in dialogue for over thirty years. His experience includes dialogues extending across approaches that arise from David Bohm’s work\, Krishnamurti’s teachings\, Ojibway spiritual traditions\, and other forms.
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